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Promotional material for rock climbing in Val-David

A page in colour from Perspective Dimanche where we can be seen a cameraman suspended on a rock face.

Source:

Perspectives-Dimanche section of the Sunday newspaper Dimanche Matin, August 22, 1971. Martine Lavallée collection.

Above is an article on rock climbing in Québec by Jacqueline April, published in the Perspectives-Dimanche section of the Sunday newspaper Dimanche Matin of August 22, 1971.

Several articles focussed on rock climbing in Val-David and in Québec have been published since the 1940s.

Here are some examples:

Extract from La Presse announcing an excursion by a mountain club.

Program of the CMC Festival in La Presse of April 25, 1967. Source: Claude Lavallée collection.

Newspaper article referring to women rock climbers in Québec, illustrated with two female portraits

Perspectives-Dimanche Dimanche Matin’s 1970 with Louise Huot and Esther Arsenault. Source: Claude Lavallée collection

Cover of the magazine Madame au Foyer. A lady is dressed in red and wears a white helmet and other climbing equipment, and the titles of various articles also appear.

Madame au foyer April 1986. Source: Martine Lavallée collection